Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2023

The VNR Electric trucks will leave the warehouse at the beginning of the day with a 100% state of charge (SOC) and will ideally return near empty (~10% SOC) at the end of their routes to take full advantage of useable energy in the battery. The EMS also enables higher efficiency and longer range through advanced eco-route planning.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2017

Peter Slowik and Nic Lutsey analyze the connections among various state and local policies; public and workplace charging infrastructure; consumer incentives; model availability; and the share of new vehicles that are plug-in electric (both fully electric and plug-in hybrid). Source: The ICCT. Click to enlarge.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

It depends on several factors, including the speed of grid component modernization, the volume of EV sales, where they occur and when, what kinds of EV charging are being done and when, regulator and political decisions, and critically, economics. The answer is a nuanced “perhaps.” The city of Palo Alto, Calif.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 20, 2023

The other challenge was where to charge the EV. Harry’s 200-unit condominium building in Minneapolis, Minn., There were two Level 2 charging stations about six blocks away in a grocery store parking lot, but that was not a convenient or reliable option. has no EV chargers in its five-story indoor parking garage.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Nothing in modern society operates without reliable access to both energy and information, and they are connected in ways we do not fully understand. The perturbations caused by transitioning EVs to scale are not market-driven, but government policy-driven to meet a climate-emergency.

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